Pulp (forthcoming)
PARTNERS IN CRIME
Maudlin House 2024
Old man Ned hates being a burden. He has been bumming off his neighbor's place ever since losing his own house to destructive bees, so the last thing he needs his neighbor finding out is that the bees are back. These kind are nocturnal honeybees, however, and they come delivering a special message to Ned through the universal language of dance.
Fictive Dream 2024
In a modern world of mental triggers, Maeve has discovered how to protect herself from harm by dissolving into television static. Is this semi-permeable state of swarming pixels enough to shield her from post-pandemic isolation, social media doom-scrolling, and a coercive boyfriend?
Periwinkle Pelican 2024
As metaphysical shops have replaced CVS pharmacies, a former patient relying on antidepressants needs a switch in prescriptions. Serenity, an employee operating Reverie Remedies, suggests they try tumbled crystals—orally. Is this new practice truly effective, or has the world lost its mind?
Fahmidan Journal (forthcoming)
ONE MAN'S TRASH
JAKE 2024
During second-lunch, some kid set a fire in the bathroom. Although this should come off as a big deal, the collective student body are desensitized to what goes on in high school, expressing their exhaustion by expectations and frustration toward the education system as a whole.
Y2K Quarterly 2024
Growing up in the early 2000's, a young girl and her older brother have witnessed countless tragedies suffered by their pet hamsters. The solution? Robotic replacement toys called Zhu Zhu Pets. These hamsters on wheels may seem indestructible, but both siblings must channel this same resilience when a malfunction threatens their own dignity.
HAD 2024
Somewhere among what depths have yet to be discovered in outer space and deep sea must be an overlap between the two. Departing from opposite sides of the earth's surface, a lone astronaut and scuba diver seek each other out in the dark. Although navigating infinity seems futile, it turns out both voyagers share more in common than they think.
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A Moment Zine 2024
The long-legged cricket that a tenant of a questionable rental house discovers turns out to be a spricket—a ruthless creature rumored to chew through any material. This means war. Although limited to defense, the tenant is prepared to lose their mind if it prevents an invasion.
FlashFlood Journal 2024
To regain a sense of control during the first holiday season without her husband alive, a mother of two young-adult sons demands their home to display red and green decorations exclusively. How much of these demands can her eldest take when attempting to integrate his new girlfriend's Hanukkah traditions into a strictly Christmas-celebrating household?
All Existing Literary Magazine 2024
Nominated for BotN 2025
Lake Gossamer is rumored to exchange with any offering left at its water. Camping nearby every summer, best friends Estrella and Lilith are skeptical of such folklore. If the girls aren't careful, however, this greedy environment may take their innocence, their bond, or even their lives.
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trampset 2024
Nobody tends to notice the new kid but, to Christopher's observation, his brand new lab partner literally turns invisible at spontaneous moments. To solve the mystery behind his classmate's transparency, Christopher must first test his own social skills during their experiment.
Roi Fainéant Press 2024
Urban explorers Frankie and Milo take on an abandoned warehouse, concealing their identity as sheet ghosts. Although the building's lack of stability concerns Frankie, they must take risks to prove their worth. Is this loyalty mutual, or will a one-sided friendship ultimately crumble like the weak concrete under their shoes?
Ghost Parachute 2024
Aris sympathizes with eels and their unfortunate history of being closely monitored—to a degree, he feels equally as misunderstood under the surveillance of his nosy mother. Suffering in the confines of a fish tank hidden in his bedroom, Aris's secret pet eel teaches its owner about the damage captivity does to wild souls like theirs.
BRUISER 2024
Stumbling home drunk from the county fair, friends Angelo and Brock take a shortcut across the cow-fields. It may just be their eyes playing tricks on them, but erratic movement materializing from the stars overhead looks an awful lot like extraterrestrial activity. Are these goons truly plastered, or are they the first to encounter UFO spacecrafts face-to-face?
Bullshit Lit 2024
Although a collector of fragments swears that they don't have any money to spare, they are harassed into turning out their bulging pockets. What spills out onto the pavement is more than a few loose trinkets. This hoarded junk contains missing pieces of something much larger.
Bullshit Lit 2024
Cassidy has always avoided fishing fanatics on dating profiles but, ironically enough, she ends up falling for one of the most avid fishermen she’s ever met. Wes’s charisma lures her in before she discovers more perplexing, horrifying qualities to him. Wes is possessive, not just with his fish but with his women. Turns out, Cassidy’s initial suspicions are correct, but now she’s just as helpless as the lifeless fish trapped with her.
Broken Antler Magazine
(forthcoming)
available in print
THE LIMINAL HOURS
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londemere lit 2024
Before Seth's mother lost a battle to depression, she described her illness as having a snowstorm raging inside her head. Convinced that he has inherited the same disease, Seth grows up trying to thaw the thoughts that numb him to his core. But what if he has been going about it all wrong?
The Hooghly Review 2024
Nominated for BotN 2025
When Ember sneezes out a chunk of her brain in the shower, she must figure out how to return it back inside her head. Every experiment, however, yanks her into vivid memories she doesn't remember. As a chronic forgetter, Ember craves these memory hits, but what if her mind concealed these moments for a reason?
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Hearth & Coffin 2024
Evacuating an apocalyptic blaze soon to engulf their rural community, a pair of childhood best friends witness stubborn neighbors refusing to leave the place they call home, which ultimately reduces their bodies to smoke before the flames even touch them.
Wireworm Magazine 2024
Although flying too close to the sun comes with fatal consequences, Icarus has been given a second chance at life. As punishment for crossing the line dividing man and god, Icarus comes back as the lowest of mortals: an earthworm. Is hubris a trait that follows him through every lifespan, or will this invertebrate finally learn his lesson?
Alternative Milk Magazine 2023
Having just stolen from the dollar store, Viva sneaks around back and stumbles upon a sacrifice happening between the dumpsters. The stranger she encounters feeds a fire of impossibilities, even sticking their own head into the flames. Now a witness to disturbing truths, Viva must either run from her own guilt or face it head-on.
Exposed Bone 2024
Casey's neighbor Ned once taught him how to swing a bat—now it's time to put those skills to the test. Bees are chewing Ned's house apart from the inside out and multiply every time they're killed. Is this nuisance a lonely delusion or must the two team up against the impossible?
Heimat Review 2023
As a child, Ben couldn't wait to grow up to be like his storm-chasing Nana. What he'd failed to realize was that she would age, too. Now grown and responsible for checking up on her during severe weather, Ben must protect his Nana from internal storms just as much as external.
Mag 20/20 2023
I SEE (THROUGH) YOU
Struggling to navigate new friendships since moving from the coast to the Midwest, Sean believes that he is transparent. When his classmates invite him to seek an urban legend—a ghost train that passes through cars parked on its tracks—Sean must regain his own tangibility before he loses touch of himself for good.
Crab Apple Literary 2023
To prove that they come in peace, the new tenants of a rental house draft a letter to the dwellers of their grimy basement, the leopard slugs. These rulers of the underground must accept what is to come during their housemates' temporary lease while sharing their space.
Pigeon Review 2023
The best alternative to burial or cremation? Being shot into orbit. Today's generation argues for the right to let their descendants wish upon their corpses sailing overhead on a clear night. After all, they say humanity is made of stardust.
Worm Moon Archive 2023
Grieving the recent passing of their granddad, cousins Wren and Margot run off to their great aunt Edith's abandoned farmhouse. In hopes of finding bits of paranormal activity rumored to linger from their great aunt's legacy, maybe the pair will find bits of their granddad, too.
Windfall Magazine 2021 only in print
DINO-MITE
A few days after the 4th of July, Georgia, August, and Johnny set off fireworks at an abandoned Sinclair gas station. Georgia is overwhelmed with platonic love—a definition of love that isn't quite understood by her friends. While Georgia struggles to express her feelings, the trio lights up an explosive issue of higher priority.
Windfall Magazine 2019
On a family camping trip in the mountains, Beau discovers a deserted wreck in the woods. To scare his young cousins, he fabricates a violent backstory of its remains. However, when Beau and his cousins encounter strange activity in the middle of the night, they set off into the dark to uncover the true story of the wreckage.